Derby's business mix leans towards logistics and healthcare more than most cities. We guard yards and warehouses, support hospitals and care providers with reception and lone-worker cover, and protect busy shopping streets.
Trusted Protection in Derby
Two sectors stand out in Derby. Transport and logistics accounts for 7.5% of registered firms, against 4.3% nationally, and health and care for 6.8% against 4.4%. Add 1,060 professional services businesses, 995 builders and 665 retailers, and Derby's security needs range from gatehouse control on trading estates to reception desks in clinics and officers on the floor at Derbion. Four hospitals and six named industrial parks lie within 5km.
Derby Business Profile
Thirty security workers from our network live within 10 miles of Derby. Fifteen are SIA-licensed and ready to be booked for shifts, and five have vehicles for patrol rounds. For larger or longer contracts we bring in colleagues from further away, with the whole operation run from our 24/7 control room and each visit tracked by GPS and written up digitally.
Logistics operators at sites such as Derby Trading Estate, Kingsway Industrial Park and Prime Enterprise Park typically need gatehouse control and guarding for yards and warehouses. Health and care providers have different priorities: reception security, support for staff working alone and cover outside normal hours. With 51 mapped construction sites nearby, site guarding and CCTV towers also form a sizeable share of work in the city.
QUAD, Department Store & Co and Citrey regularly host audiences in Derby. Martyn's Law will cover venues for 200 or more from 2027, and our event staff can support organisers with searches, crowd flow and evacuation arrangements. What Martyn's Law means for venues.
Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Updated October 2026.
Security Requirements in Derby
Shopping in Derby centres on Derbion, the Strand Arcade, Theatre Walk and Saint Peter's Way, with Bradshaw Way Retail Park and College Park nearby. Derby, Peartree and Spondon stations bring people in, and 145 pubs, bars and nightclubs, among them MooMoo and The Blue Note Club, keep the centre busy late.
Drugs offences feature prominently in local crime figures, and Derbyshire Constabulary has made drug-related crime its first priority. Door teams and evening patrols are part of the response for licensed premises.
Services in Derby
The services listed below support Derby's warehouses, care settings, shops, venues and construction sites.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Derby's recorded crime held roughly level over the last year, with drugs and public order offences prominent.
There were 13,358 offences recorded within a mile in the year to August 2026. Violence and sexual offences made up 4,776, about 36%. Anti-social behaviour reached 1,639, public order 1,371, shoplifting 1,299 and drugs 1,249. Comparing the latest quarter with its counterpart a year earlier gives a fall of just 1%, and shop theft eased 7%. The volume of disorder and drugs offences matters most for venues and late-opening shops in the centre.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
The Derby City team is focusing on drug-related crime and anti-social behaviour, illegal use of bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters, and work with partners in residential areas.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Derby.
Areas We Cover Near Derby
Belper is 7 miles from Derby, and Ilkeston and Sandiacre are both 8; these and our other nearby towns are listed below.
Postcodes We Cover in Derby
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Derby, covering parts of Derby, South Derbyshire, Amber Valley and Erewash.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Derby Security FAQs
Yes. Transport and logistics makes up 7.5% of Derby firms, well above the 4.3% British share. We provide gatehouse control, yard and warehouse guarding and alarm response at sites such as Derby Trading Estate, Kingsway Industrial Park and The Meadows Industrial Estate.
Health and care accounts for 6.8% of local businesses against 4.4% nationally. Our officers provide reception security, lone-worker support and out-of-hours cover, all logged through our 24/7 control room with digital reports.
Thirty security workers in our network live within 10 miles of the city. Fifteen hold a current SIA licence and are active for shifts, and five have cars for patrol work. We supplement them with officers from the wider network for bigger contracts.
There are 145 pubs, bars and nightclubs within 5km, and Police.uk counted 1,371 public order and 1,249 drugs offences within a mile last year. Our SIA-licensed door supervisors support venues such as MooMoo and The Blue Note Club with searches and incident logs.
We do. With 51 construction sites mapped within 5km, site guarding, CCTV towers and patrols after working hours are a large part of our Derby work, aimed at keeping plant, tools and materials on site.
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